Happiness NZ: Three Thursday Nights & ThreeNow

Happiness, the New Zealand comedy, is on Three on Thursday 12 November at 8.30pm, listed as Episode 3, while ThreeNow already has four Season 2 episodes. Three’s numbering is not matched to ThreeNow’s here, and how many episodes there are and the last date on Three are not yet confirmed.

What time is Happiness on Three?

Thursday at 8.30pm, half an hour, with a repeat on Three +1 an hour later. Freeview’s guide, opened on Tuesday 10 November around 10.40am, ran through to Tuesday 17 November and had Happiness once in that stretch, on Thursday 12 November. Sky’s guide, checked at the same time, agrees on that night and adds Thursday 19 November.

On the same Thursday, the Freeview guide has Guy Mont Spelling Bee Australia on Three at 7.30pm before it and Small Town Scandal at 9pm after it, so Happiness is the middle half-hour of a three-show run. Those 19 November rows come only from Sky, since Freeview stopped short of that date, so they are listings and not a promise. Happiness shares the Thursday night on Three with The Traitors US, which the Freeview guide has later in the evening.

Where can you stream Happiness in NZ?

On ThreeNow, which files the current episodes under Season 2. The catalogue we opened on Tuesday 10 November, around 10.40am, shows four Season 2 episodes and six from Season 1, with the dates ThreeNow prints below. The “listed until” column is ThreeNow’s own end date for each episode, which the service can change.

ThreeNow put the first three Season 2 episodes up together at midday on 29 October and Episode 4 a week later, and its home page carries a “new episode every Thursday” message for the show.

Is ThreeNow ahead of Three on Happiness?

It looks that way. If Three’s Episode 3 on 12 November is the same episode as ThreeNow’s Episode 3, ThreeNow had it a fortnight earlier, on 29 October, and had Episode 4 on 5 November, two weeks before the 19 November slot Sky lists for Three’s Episode 4. That “if” matters: the TV guides carry no season number, so we haven’t matched the two sets of numbers, and we don’t claim a gap in days beyond the dates printed above.

Can you catch up on Season 1 of Happiness?

Yes, on ThreeNow: the catalogue we opened on Tuesday 10 November lists six Season 1 episodes, all dated Tuesday 1 April 2025 and all listed until 31 March 2028. That is the quickest way into the show before Thursday, since Season 1 is already sitting in the catalogue and Season 2 is filling in week by week. We haven’t watched either season for this page, so we make no claim about how much of Season 2 depends on the first.

If you would rather stay with the broadcast, Three +1 repeats the Thursday episode an hour after Three. On Sky’s channel list Three is channel 3 and Three +1 is channel 503, and both are the channels the Sky guide uses for Happiness.

What is Happiness about?

ThreeNow’s description is a short one: Charlie Summers, an ex-Kiwi Broadway director, is pushed by circumstance back to his home town of Tauranga, where his mum has him join her amateur theatre society. It was made with support from NZ On Air. We stop there on purpose, because plot beyond the catalogue blurb is a recap and this page is a where-and-when guide. We also don’t list the cast: we found a cast list from one source only, and a name needs two.

Where else do New Zealand’s own shows appear?

The home-grown series are gathered in our season guides section, including Love It or List It NZ and Country Calendar. If you want to watch without Sky, the Freeview versus Sky guide sets out what Three and ThreeNow give you, and the NZ streaming prices guide compares the paid services.

FAQ

What channel is Happiness on in NZ?
Three for broadcast, with Three +1 an hour after, and ThreeNow for streaming.

What night is Happiness on?
Thursdays on Three. Next up is Thursday 12 November, 8.30pm.

How many episodes does Season 2 have?
Not yet confirmed: ThreeNow shows four so far, and no official total or Three end date turned up.

Sources

• Freeview NZ TV guide — the Happiness slot on Three, Thursday 12 November 2026 (guide window Tuesday 10 to Tuesday 17 November), opened Tuesday 10 November, about 10.40am.
• Sky TV guide — Happiness on Three and Three +1, Thursday 12 and 19 November 2026, opened Tuesday 10 November, about 10.40am.
• ThreeNow — show catalogue (Season 2 episodes 1 to 4, Season 1 episodes 1 to 6, availability and end dates, show description), read Tuesday 10 November, around 10.40am.

By the NZ TV Time desk · Updated 11 November, 8.25am NZDT